Chapter 27: Every side was plotting.
Feng Qi had read almost every book on the law related to marriage, divorce and custody. At the time, she was trying to get back the custody of Mo Jingzhe from the Mo family. Her knowledge had failed her then but she was sure it would help Mei Mei now. "Jingzhe, take Mingzhu to bed, Mei Mei and I need to talk about how to proceed. Those rats cannot be kept in the basement forever, one night is fine but if it continues, Mo Liang will claim spousal abuse."
Jingzhe covered Mingzhu’s ears and asked, "Why can’t we just throw him out?"
Feng Qi rolled her eyes. "Because he could run to the emperor or the media and use the excuse that Mei Mei is keeping his daughter away from him. Even if she comes out and says they are divorcing, by law he has visitation rights. Do you really think that it would be a great idea for him and that mistress to be around our Mingzhu on their own?"
"No way." Mei Mei said strongly. After the threats Mo Liang had made towards Mingzhu, it was impossible. "He cannot even be trusted to take her out for a walk, ice cream or to school."
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"That is why he must stay here where we can watch him until the ink on those divorce and custody agreement papers is dry." Feng Qi said with emphasis. "On the ground floor, there are two bedrooms which have not been taken up by the servants. They can squeeze into those ones starting tomorrow, as for the mistress, I don’t think she will be sticking around much longer, not in this house anyway."
Feng Qi was right because in the basement, Tang Yue had her nose crinkled as if the very air she was breathing was too disgusting to take in.
"A Yang, we cannot stay here." she shuffled around, worried that a bug would come fro somewhere and climb up her legs. "There are no windows, the beds are child sized, there is only one bathroom and we have not been given anything to eat. Even if you don’t consider me or your mother, you must think about A Hao."
Mo Liang had two fingers on his nose, he was looking around for a mirror because he was worried that his perfect sharp nose had been broken. He valued his looks more than anything.
"Yue, I need to think, stop talking for a minute." he shouted at her. He found his way to the bathroom and by a stroke of luck, there was a mirror above the sink. Relieved to see that the damage to his nose was not irreparable, he came out after washing his face.
Tang Yue started from where she had stopped. "A Yang, lets move to my apartment in the city. Living there is much better than living here, I don’t understand why you are determined to move in here."
"This ignorant girl, do you know the worth of this house?" Mrs. Sun asked Tang Yue with irritation in her voice. "Its market value currently is one hundred eight million yuan. This Mei Mei, she has obviously been hiding other assets over the years, who knows how much is worth now. I always knew that a wealthy heiress like her could not be truly broke. All that money belongs to my son, he walked through fire for her. What she owes him is a life, can you put a price on life?"
Her shrill voice was loaded with self righteousness and ignorance, she truly believed the nonsense she was saying.
At the moment, Tang Yue did not care about millions Mrs. Sun and Mo Liang wanted to scheme, all she wanted was a bath in a beautiful bathroom, a hot meal and to sleep in a bed with French linen sheets that she had purchased before the space expedition.
If Mei Mei had allowed them to choose any bedroom they desired in this large mansion, she would be happy to stay but they were in a basement!! They were basically being told to live like sewer rats until the divorce was finalized. "A Yang, of what use is staying here? Mei Mei has already agreed to the divorce. As long as you keep threatening her with her daughter, I don’t believe that she is a threat to you."
"You shut up." Mrs. Sun spat out. "What do you know about anything? A Yang, your cousin said that the company needs an injection of at least two billion to expand operations and pay off some debts. Our house is gone, we need money to build a new one and it should be grander than this one. All of our belongings are also gone, we are now starting from scratch." She turned her head to Tang Yue and snidely asked, "Can your Tang family fill all these holes?"
Tang Yue bit her bottom lip and clenched her hands to contain the anger within her. She found Mo Liang’s mother to be greedy and annoying, why should the Tang family fill those holes? Besides, even though she came from the Tang family, it was not as if she was the great benevolent doctor Tang Siming’s daughter.
Her own side of the family was just a distant relatives, they had been found after an extensive DNA search. They had no claims to the wealth of Tang Siming, Xue Lili and their children. The main reason why she had pushed into the field of medicine by her parents was so that she could share in Tang Siming’s legacy.
Her father was not a Tang, it was her mother and yet for the sake of connections and reputation, their children had been named Tang and all of them had been encouraged to go into various fields of medicine.
Mrs. Sun took Tang Yue’s silence to be an admission to the fact that her family was not wealthy enough to support their Mo family. "I knew it, you are useless financially. If you had not given me a grandson I would not approve of this relationship between you and my son."
"Alright stop it mother." Mo Liang calmed his mother down. "Yue is right, this basement is no place for A Hao. He is the national space baby, an important resource for the country. We cannot afford for him to be harmed in any way. Yue, go back to your apartment as for other things here, I will handle them."
He sent Tang Yue away, escorting her all the way outside and made sure that the news drones around saw him sending her off. He drove to the nearest restaurant, bought a packed of fried rice, chicken and soda and then returned to the house.
Mrs. Sun was not very happy when she saw what they would be eating for dinner. "That bitch, she fed that bastard Jingzhe and his mother a full meal while we have to nibble on store bought chicken."
"Just wait when I take the rest of her money mother, we will make her pay for putting us through this." Mo Liang replied.
He would give her and her daughter the same slaps that she had given him and he would enjoy sending her back to the pathetic being he had turned her into once upon a time.